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This balloon is not a magic pill
- pity about the $2000 cost… reckon it’ll work.
- Left in stomach for 3 months
- Can have up to three of them in the stomach at a time.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/this-weight-loss-pill-turns-into-a-balloon-to-fill-your-stomach/283399/
This Weight-Loss Pill Turns Into a Balloon to Fill Your Stomach
A novel treatment in clinical trials
This is the Obalon system. It is a pill that has a balloon inside. Obalon is a weight-loss device, marketed as an alternative to bariatric surgery, that claims to help people eat less and “push back from the table sooner.”
Obalon begins to work when you swallow Obalon and it lands in your stomach. Obalon remains temporarily attached to a thin tube, through which doctors can inflate it. They then remove the thin tube, and the balloon stays in your stomach for up to three months, bobbing around like buoy in gastric waters. You can take up to three at a time, the manufacturers say.
The idea is that balloons partly fill your stomach to make you feel full, so you eat less. They are too big and buoyant to pass beyond the stomach. After twelve weeks, a doctor deflates the balloons and pulls them back out through your mouth.
“This balloon will act to educate [people] about portion size and retrain their brain and their mindset a little,” Dr. Sally Norton, a U.K. bariatric surgeon, told CBS News.
“Health experts warn that the balloon is not a magic pill.”
My initial reaction was the same as that of fitness expert Tim Bean. This balloon procedure does not make the stomach smaller, and seems like it could possibly make it bigger. I’m intrigued by the idea but skeptical of its long-term effectiveness. It also costs £2,000 ($3,321).
The Obalon balloon pill is approved for investigational use only in the U.S. However, it is approved in the E.U. and is available in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain. What better way to see Europe than with expensive stomach balloons?
Hi-fi coffin…
The pharaohs would be proud, as will the archaeologists who dig it up…
http://www.springwise.com/hi-fi-coffin-audiophiles-offers-soundtrack-afterlife/
Hi-fi coffin for audiophiles provides a soundtrack to the afterlife
27 Jan 2014 
Created by Pause Ljud & Bild, the system consists of three different parts. Firstly, users create an account through the online CataPlay platform, which connects to Spotify and enables customers to curate a playlist for their own coffin or get friends and family to choose the tracks when they’re gone. The CataTomb is a 4G-enabled gravestone that receives the music from CataPlay and display the current track — along with details and tributes to the deceased — through a 7-inch LCD Display. Finally, the CataCoffin is where the parted will themselves enjoy two-way front speakers, 4-inch midbass drivers and an 8-inch sub-bass element that deliver dimensional high-fidelity audio tailored to the acoustics of the casket. The video below explains more about the concept:
Much like And Vinyly — the service that presses loved ones’ ashes into vinyl records — Catacomb Soundsystem caters for the fanatical nature of the audiophile who requires perfect sound even if they can’t hear it. Although priced at EUR 23,500, there’s certain to be an audience of music geeks that would willingly part with the cash.
Website: www.catacombosoundsystem.com
Contact: info@pauseljudbild.com
Spotted by Murtaza Patel, written by Springwise
The most devious social hack ever…
So very sneaky…
http://www.oliandalex.com/james-face/
JAMES’ FACE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 AT 11:36AM
I LIKE GOING ONTO MY FRIENDS FACEBOOK PAGE, TAKING PHOTOS OF HIM, CHANGING HIS FACE SLIGHTLY THEN PUTTING THEM BACK UP ON FACEBOOK. HE DOESN’T LIKE ME DOING THIS.
HBO set to do dance-music comedy….
- knob-twisters
- self-oblivious man-children
http://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2014/jan/26/calvin-harris-irvine-welsh-dance-music-comedy
Calvin Harris and Irvine Welsh’s HBO dance-music comedy could be hilarious
Egomaniacal knob-twisters? Self-oblivious man-children? According to the anonymous duo behind the @DJsComplaining Twitter feed, the EDM scene provides a rich comic seam
Funny man? Calvin Harris, who will be collaborating in the making of HBO’s new comedy. Photograph: John Lamparski/WireImage
Remember when you first heard Calvin Harris‘s 2007 hit Acceptable in the 80s and thought to yourself how amazing it would be if Harris wrote a sitcom with Irvine Welsh about electronic dance music? And then remember thinking that the only way that could happen would be if Jay Zand Will Smith agreed to produce it? Well, it’s happening.
HBO – the visionary network behind modern parables The Wire and Boardwalk Empire – has announced it is in the process of developing Higher, a new half-hour comedy series “set in the world of electronic music,” clearly concluding that the next logical step on from crack dealers in Baltimore and bootleggers in prohibition-era Atlantic City is a kid sitting alone in his mum’s house in Romford listening to the same kick drum for hours on end and occasionally going out to buy clothes pegs just to “get out of the house”.
While, on the face of it, this may not seem like the most fecund comedy ground, as DJs ourselves, we are well aware that the world of dance music is a rich tapestry of egomaniacs and self-oblivious man-children that is ripe for mockery. We have tried to mine this particular seam of comedy for a couple of years now, first undermining our peers by retweeting their bitter, mundane gripes on our Twitter account,@DJsComplaining, then drawing on our own hard-won experience to write cutting think pieces about the EDM scene. And we have remained completely, spinelessly anonymous – because sharing a backstage area with a socially impaired knob-twister is often awkward enough even without the added frisson of them knowing you’ve spent 500 words and several days of your life lampooning them in the national press.
Saying that, Harris clearly operates in a different sphere to the likes of us, and while details about which aspects of EDM Higher will focus on are scarce, we can only assume that The Most Highly Paid DJ in the World™’s input to the project will be somewhat influenced by his own lifestyle. Harris probably slaps together his latest chart-topper on his iPad in between sips of ambrosia and bouts of clay-pigeon shooting, occasionally sloping off to wistfully roam his grounds on his gold-plated penny farthing. Let’s hope, then, that the presence of Welsh – a man whose heart remains closer to the gutter – will bring things back down to Earth. Welsh was reared in a different world of dance music altogether: a world of pills and pubs, of minicabs and chilli sauce; a world where ketamine was what you gave a horse and Traktor was what you used to get away from the horse once you’d given it some ketamine.
We don’t know yet quite how these two very different world views will meet on the page, but with Welsh’s keen eye for hallucinatory nightmare and Harris’s renowned comedic prowess, Higher just might be the laugh-a-minute romp that the EDM world has been so desperately waiting for. Perhaps.
Fight Club easter eggs…
One of my favourite movies…
http://bangbangattack.com/2014/01/18/25-didnt-movie-fight-club/
25 Things You Didn’t Know About The Movie “Fight Club”
1. At the beginning of the movie, after the traditional copyright warning, there is a second warning that flashes for a second.
2. Director David Fincher has claimed in interviews that there is at least one Starbucks cup visible in every scene in the movie.
3. Tyler Durden flashes on screen four times before we actually meet him as a character.
4. And, in an early scene of the narrator, there is an ad for Bridgeworth Suites playing on a TV in front of him…
…Featuring Brad Pitt.
5. The breath in the cave scene is actually Leonardo Di Caprio’s breath from Titanic, composited into the shot.
6. Brad Pitt didn’t want his parents to watch the movie but they insisted. They changed their minds when they saw this scene:
7. Before shooting, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton actually took boxing and soap-making classes.
8. And, according to IMDb, Brad Pitt actually went to a dentist to have his front tooth chipped for the role.
9. Helena Bonham Carter, who is 5’2”, wore huge platform shoes to be closer in height to 5-foot-11-inch Brad Pitt and 6-foot Edward Norton.
Via weheartit.com
10. And she insisted that her makeup artist do all her makeup left-handed, because she thought the character of Marla wouldn’t care about, or be good at, that kind of thing.
11. During this scene, when a Fight Club member sprays a priest, the camera shakes slightly because the cameraman couldn’t keep from laughing.
12. Before deciding on Brad Pitt, the producers initially wanted Russell Crowe to play Tyler Durden.
13. And both Sean Penn and Matt Damon were considered for the role of the narrator, which Edward Norton eventually played.
14. Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were both offered Helena Bonham Carter’s role of Marla Singer.
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Witherspoon turned it down because it was “too dark,” and Gellar’s contract with Buffy didn’t let her accept the role.
And Courtney Love and Winona Ryder were also considered for the role.
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16. When the narrator is sitting at work writing haikus, the names on the document on his screen are of the film’s production assistants and crew members.
Via imgur.com
17. Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter spent three days recording orgasm sounds for their unseen sex scenes.
18. This line of pillow talk was originally supposed to be “I want to have your abortion,” but Laura Ziskin, a producer at Fox 2000, found that too offensive.
The director agreed to change the line, on the condition that the new line wouldn’t be up for negotiation. When Ziskin saw the new line (“I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school”) she found it to be even more offensive, but couldn’t do anything about it because of their agreement.
19. In the scene where the narrator first punches Tyler Durden, Edward Norton was supposed to fake-hit Brad Pitt…
But at the last minute, director David Fincher told Edward Norton to actually punch Brad Pitt. Pitt’s wince of pain is real, and you can see Norton laughing about it.
Via youtube.com
20. Marla Singer’s phone number is the same as Teddy’s number in the movie Memento.
It is also the same as the Hong Kong Restaurant’s phone number in Harriet the Spy, Eddie Alden’s phone number in the movie Someone Like You, and the number for a mental institution in an episode of the show Millennium.
21. While filming this scene, Edward Norton was actually completely nude from the waist down.
On the DVD commentary, he tells director Fincher this and then jokes, “Did you notice I never had to go to the bathroom that day?”
22. To look convincingly like sagging flesh, Bob’s fat suit was filled with birdseed. It weighed more than 100 pounds.
23. When Tyler is giving a speech to the Fight Club, he looks directly at Jared Leto’s character when he mentions rockstars.
The year before the film’s release, Jared Leto formed the now platinum-selling band 30 Seconds To Mars.
24. The movie contains several subtle hints about the special “relationship” between Tyler Durden and the narrator.
For instance, when they both get on a bus together, the narrator only pays the fare for one person. Later in the movie, when they are together in a car that Tyler is driving, the narrator also gets out on the driver’s side.
25. And, finally, in the last scene of the film, there is a single frame flash of male genitalia, just like Tyler Durden would insert into films at his projectionist job.
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Famous movie quotes visualised…
Terrific stuff… could be handy for a preso about data!?
Hapax Legomenon
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomeno
A hapax legomenon (/ˈhæpəks lɨˈɡɒmɨnɒn/ also /ˈhæpæks/ or /ˈheɪpæks/;[1][2] pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax, pl. hapaxes) is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author’s works, even though it occurs more than once in that work. Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning “(something) said (only) once”.
West Wing: Why are we changing maps?
New Yorker: Flowers
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“I want some flowers that say ‘Here, have some friggin’ flowers.'”